Case study: the treatment of post-concussive migraine headaches with acupuncture
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Case study: the treatment of post-concussive migraine headaches with acupuncture
Description
International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture (2018), Dougherty, Nicholas.
Abstract
Acupuncture has long been utilized for any kind of body pain. This is especially true with headaches. Migraines being defined by medical dictionaries as a symptom complex of periodic headaches, usually temporal and unilateral, often with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhea, and photophobia, perceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, often with resultant prodromal sensory, especially ocular, symptoms (aura), and commencing with the vasodilation that follows. These types of headaches are quite common with a prevalence ranging anywhere from 9-14% of males over the age of 18 and 12-20% in females in the early to mid 2000s in the US. Along with this, current treatment of pain resulting from migrane headaches include possibly dangerous or habit-forming medications such as opiods. These medications are thought to be administered to approximately 35% of patients experiencing extreme forms of migrane headaches. Results from these medications remain a topic of debate as the current 'opiod crises' in the United States continues to be waged. Many healthcare practioners as well as patients are looking to adjunctive and/or alternative therapies to that of the standard conventions. Studies involving acupuncture and headaches have been conducted for decades at this time and have shown to be an effective countermeasure during acute onset.
Alternative Title
International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture
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Date
Date Created
5/1/2019
Language
English
Type
Journal Article
doi
10.3103/S1047197918020060
issn
1074-1979
issue
2
page end
142
page start
141
volume
27